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| Author: | Lex [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:24 pm ] |
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Great for the tourists, but like most locals I'll be giving Stratford a wide berth that weekend: http://www.stratford-herald.com/82099-new-look-shakespeare-birthday-celebrations.html |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 7:03 pm ] |
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Makes two Lex |
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| Author: | Lex [ Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:49 pm ] |
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This might be interesting, but it still won't tempt me into town over the weekend: https://stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/living-statues-from-far-and-wide-to-go-head-to-head-in-stratford-5727/ |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:04 pm ] |
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I've watched the living statues several times in Stratford. I must admit to an odd fascination and most are very good. But like you Lex, I'll give the place a miss that weekend. |
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| Author: | Lex [ Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:06 pm ] |
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Yes, I'll definitely be leaving all that to the tourists. |
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| Author: | Lex [ Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:56 pm ] |
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Avoid Stratford on 23rd April - it'll be hell: https://stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/bards-annual-birthday-bash-to-return-to-the-town-centre/ |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:33 pm ] |
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St George's day! |
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| Author: | Lex [ Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:29 pm ] |
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Good point! I'll be raising a pint on St. G's Day, if only to spit in the eye of the Woke Brigade! |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:44 pm ] |
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| Author: | Lex [ Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:11 pm ] |
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A roundup of what's happening: https://stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/shakespeares-birthday-celebrations-returns-to-the-streets-of-stratford-37670/ The town centre's streets will be closed on Friday as well as Saturday & Sunday. |
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| Author: | margaret [ Sat Apr 23, 2022 6:38 am ] |
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Woops! Is it me, or did anyone else notice the spelling blooper in this sentence? ''Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebrations will take place across the weekend of April 23 and 24 after a three year Covid-enforced absense.'' 
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Sat Apr 23, 2022 6:28 pm ] |
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Just can't get the staff, Margaret. Spellcheck is very good, but you first need it turned on! However, the limit is that it doesn't tell you when you've used a correctly spelt word but in the wrong sense. Of course, that we have let education standards fall so far doesn't help in the slightest. I used to wind the staff of the Coventry Telegraph up about such things until they banned me from posting. |
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| Author: | margaret [ Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:09 pm ] |
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rebbonk wrote: Just can't get the staff, Margaret. Spellcheck is very good, but you first need it turned on! However, the limit is that it doesn't tell you when you've used a correctly spelt word but in the wrong sense. Of course, that we have let education standards fall so far doesn't help in the slightest. I used to wind the staff of the Coventry Telegraph up about such things until they banned me from posting. I agree. I am nowhere near perfect with spelling myself, but I like to make sure it is correct. But when it is an editorial piece I would expect word perfect, or maybe a few errors are expected these days. I mean official stuff . What makes me miffed is that those in a position of editorial reporting, probably has to have at least A level English for the job. I never attained that level. It's just that sometimes an error jumps out at me this is blatantly obvious. |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:51 pm ] |
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Margaret, I barely scraped 4 O levels before I left school. I have worked as an editor, proofreader and writer. Sadly, education standards have dropped very badly. I used to manage a team of very highly qualified engineers, half of my day was spent correcting their reports so that they were at least readable. |
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| Author: | Lex [ Sun Apr 24, 2022 4:30 pm ] |
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It's been a problem for years - universities are constantly complaining about having to put remedial lessons on for their students. |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:40 pm ] |
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I was warned during my Masters that if my written English was poor I would likely fail. Yet a couple of months later when I sat the exams anyone not having English as their first language could use dictionaries. OK, it didn't bother me but I didn't consider it a fair practice. I think we are largely reaping the 'progressive' streak that we saw in education where pupils weren't corrected with poor English or punctuation. Unfortunately, a lot of that 'progressive streak' is now employed in education themselves and has no idea of how to correct pupils. Thus the spiral downwards continues. |
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